Harry V. K. Henderson; Donald Douglas; Roger B. Whitman; Raymond Matthewson Hood; William Edwin Rudge
Arcady: A National Playground where the Leaders of Contemporary Life may Sustain their Capacity for Work by bringing to its utmost the Art of Rest and Recreation
Publisher: Privately Printed by Arcady Executives, NY, 1929. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover First, Limited Edition (No. 482 of an unknown number), Quarter bound in white cloth over paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on cover. Printed by William Edwin Rudge of Mount Vernon, NY. The volume is profusely illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harry V. K. Henderson, aquatints by Donald Douglas, as well as photographs by Roger B. Whitman, floor plans by the architects (Johnson and Brannan), and maps. Illustrated endpapers. Preface by Raymond M. Hood. This is an extremely scarce, privately, and lavishly, printed prospectus for a planned luxury golf resort community in coastal South Carolina, near Myrtle Beach, being developed by a group headed by John T. Woodside between 1926 and 1930. Portions of the planned development were built (The Ocean Forest Hotel was completed in 1930 and demolished in 1974 and the Ocean Golf Course and Country Club - now known as Pine Lakes Country Club - were completed by 1930), but the Great Depression put a stop to the development. "Although the Woodside Brothers did not see their plans for Arcady come to fruition, they did build the first golfing facility in Myrtle Beach and paved the way for the town to become the golfing Mecca it is today" - [from the Myrtle Beach Master Plan]. . Covers lightly soiled, some foxing on endpapers only, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. A beautiful copy of this extremely rare volume. VERY GOOD+. Color and B&W Illustrations. Folio 13" - 23" tall. (40) pp